The Darth Vader Option
Colin Kidd: The Tories, 24 January 2013
The Conservatives since 1945: The Drivers of Party Change
by Tim Bale.
Oxford, 372 pp., £55, September 2012,978 0 19 923437 0 Show More
by Tim Bale.
Oxford, 372 pp., £55, September 2012,
The Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron
by Tim Bale.
Polity, 471 pp., £14.99, January 2011,978 0 7456 4858 3 Show More
by Tim Bale.
Polity, 471 pp., £14.99, January 2011,
Reconstructing Conservatism? The Conservative Party in Opposition, 1997-2010
by Richard Hayton.
Manchester, 166 pp., £60, September 2012,978 0 7190 8316 7 Show More
by Richard Hayton.
Manchester, 166 pp., £60, September 2012,
“... approach extended beyond public relations to matters of substance. Indeed, the Labour chancellor Denis Healey described the quest to identify policy in Thatcher’s first election manifesto as like ‘looking for a black cat in a dark coal cellar’. Not only did Thatcher become more narrowly ideological, but this intransigence constituted her bequest to the ... ”